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Welfare And Foreign Aid Practices In The Contemporary United States: A Governmentalstudy, Philippe Fournier
Welfare And Foreign Aid Practices In The Contemporary United States: A Governmentalstudy, Philippe Fournier
Philippe Fournier
This article aims to expose the main governmental shifts in recent Americanhistory (1961-2000) by examining two programs: the Assistance to Families with DependentChildren (AFDC) and the Agency for International development (US-AID). Through the ex-ploration of primary and secondary sources, we analyse the production, organisation andcirculation of governmental practices in the realms of both domestic and foreign policy. In theAmerican context, practices of government typically revolve around freedom, efficiency mo-dels and individual responsibility. Throughout the analysis, we find that the general critiqueswhich have guided reforms and experiments in both areas converge around the same ele-ments. This testifies to the fact that …
Welfare Reform: What About The Children?, Brenda J. Lohman, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rebekah Levine Coley, Laura D. Pittman
Welfare Reform: What About The Children?, Brenda J. Lohman, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rebekah Levine Coley, Laura D. Pittman
Brenda J Lohman
Within a sample of 1,885 low-income children and their families, preschoolers and adolescents show patterns of cognitive achievement and problem behavior that should be of concern to policy-makers. The preschoolers and adolescents in our sample are more developmentally at risk compared to middleclass children in national samples. In addition, adolescents whose mothers were on welfare in 1999 have lower levels of cognitive achievement and higher levels of behavioral and emotional problems than do adolescents whose mothers had left welfare, or whose mothers had never been on welfare. For preschoolers, mothers’ current or recent welfare participation is linked with poor cognitive …